The Farewell Party For TENGA

the farewell party for TENGA from Mitsuaki Inaba on Vimeo.

The Street Series TOKYO

The Street Series TOKYO from Bee0310 on Vimeo.

Tour Of Japan- The Spectator's Bikes

A few snaps of some of the spectator's bicycles from last weekend's first stage of the Tour Of Japan in Sakai, Osaka...

Custom Basso with a charming message on the rear wheel!

Nice to see a couple of locally made Panasonics out amongst all the high end Euro bikes...

Panasonic roadie.

Custom Panasonic

Super nice classic Look with Dura Ace groupset.

It wasn't all roadies though...

BD-1

And our personal favourite from the day was this beautifully done custom Easton MTB/Cross bike. We liked it so much we got shots from every angle...

On the subject of Panasonic, Brad was out riding in Kashiwara City last week and passed the Panasonic factory. One day, some how, we will get a tour in here...

YORK UNO D.I.Y EDIT #7 "20140526 UP "

Smooth, as ever, from York Uno. Wicked soundtrack from the man himself too...

Czech Mate

Some superb shots that Brad took of his friend's Morati whilst riding in Kyoto over the weekend...



Check out more shots of this rare titanium beauty on Brad's Flickr.

Tour Of Japan 2014 Stage 6 Tokyo

中２病EDIT１

中２病EDIT１ from GentleGround on Vimeo.

Shimano Airlines

A curiosity seen at the Bicycle Museum Cycle Center in Sakai, Osaka last week. We are always partial to a classic MTB so were naturally drawn to this high end Sunn bikes full bouncer...

Closer inspection reveals a piece of MTB history and we are not talking about the Kujo tyres! The bike is equipped with the Shimano Airlines gear shifting technology...

One of the weirder ideas that has come from Shimano, the 7 speed, downhill specific groupset was released in 1999. The supposed advantage was the speed of the gear change, with no cables to shift the rider only had to dab the lever to change gear instantaneously, apparently a huge benefit in a DH race...

Regardless of how genius or dumb you view the Airlines idea, we so, so want this classic XTR chainset!

The Araya disc rims are a nice touch too...

The wonderful Disraeli Gears  has a stack more information on this curiously, erm... "overlooked" bit of kit.

Year Of The Camo (Continued)

New bags from Blue Lug...



And both the Rin Rin Moriguchi store and Hutte getting in on the camo action.

The Street Series 2014 Round 4 Tokyo Opening

The Street Series 2014 Round 4 Tokyo Opening from Samo on Vimeo.

Tour Of Japan- Stage 5 Izu

Tour Of Japan Stage 4- Mount Fuji